Ph.D. in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

CROSS-CUTTING TRAINING ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED BY THE INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL SCHOOL.

The International Doctoral School (EID-UCLM) organizes cross-disciplinary training courses with the aim of offering the doctorate students’ complementary training activities to his or her activity as a researcher. The offered activities can be taught through their doctoral studies. To check for more information:
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EACH ACADEMIC YEAR INCLUDES INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSES, SEMINARS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OFFERED BY THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM ITSELF EVALUABLE TRAINING ACTIVITIES IN THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES IN AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES.

The minimum legal access requirements for admission to any type of doctoral programs are specified in the section "Access for new doctoral students" in this link.

Recommended Admission Profile for the Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Program.

The admission profile will consider the Program's focus on agrarian and environmental issues, with applied biology as a basic common element and the interaction of its different fields of knowledge with the environment. In each of the cases and lines of research of the program are integrated, complementing each other, own contents of agricultural production, forestry production, animal production and health, ecology, study of global change, aerobiology, biodiversity, biotechnology and genetics or engineering. The PhD program is broad, integrating complementary knowledge, multidisciplinary and a reference in environment and agricultural production systems, focused on the so-called "green engineering" and on the deep knowledge of biological systems and their interactions. Among the degrees, taught at the UCLM or at other universities, which, fulfilling the above requirements, fit the recommended entry profile (although not exclusive), are: 

University's degrees (as well as their equivalent bachelor's or engineering degrees):

• Agricultural and Food Engineering.
• Agri-Food Engineering.
• Agricultural and Rural Engineering.
• Forestry and Environmental Engineering.
• Food Science and Technology.
• Chemistry.
• Environmental Sciences.
• Biology.
• Biotechnology.
• Biochemistry.
• Veterinary.
• Physics.

University Master's Degrees (as well as their bachelor's or engineering degrees that may be equivalent):

• Agricultural Science and Engineering.
• Plant Biotechnology.
• Molecular Biology.
• Agronomic Engineering.
• Environmental Sustainability in Local and Territorial Development.
• Basic and Applied Research in Hunting Resources.
• Forestry Engineering.
• Chemical Engineering.
• Research in Chemistry.
• Research in Physics.

In addition, a good command of the languages most used in the scientific field of the Program is recommended, specifically English, for which a basic B1 level is recommended.

The training complements that are established will be mainly focused on taking some of the subjects or thematic modules of one of the University Master's Degrees that give direct access.

Places offered: 30.

SPECIFIC SELECTION CRITERIA

The specific criteria for students' selection are the following (according to what is stablished in point 3.2 of the Report):

Its main objective is to define the criteria for the realization of the proposal of experts for the previous review and the tribunal that must evaluate the Doctoral Thesis by the Academic Commission, based on the stipulations of Article 4.5.g. of the Regulations of the Doctoral Studies of the University of Castilla-La Mancha.

Both the experts for the pre-evaluation and the proposed members for the composition of the tribunal (titular and alternate) shall comply with the research experience criteria stated in the regulation. They must also be experts related to the subject matter of the Thesis. Under no circumstances may those who have been Tutor, Director or co-director of the Thesis to be evaluated act as previous evaluators or members of the examining board.

It is reminded that, according to the regulations to that effect, the previous evaluators of the doctoral thesis must be two. The tribunals will be formed by three full members, of which at least two will be external to the University of Castilla-La Mancha. The appointment of the examining board, made by the International Doctoral School at the proposal of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will include three substitutes.

Experts for the pre-evaluation (2): 

They must prove research experience through the possession of at least one period of recognized research activity (six-year period) if they are legally able to apply for it. If the proposed expert is not legally able to apply for recognition of six-year periods or if it is not applicable in his or her case, he or she must prove the required research experience through the authorship of several publications or other relevant results of his or her research, equivalent to those required for the recognition of six-year periods in his or her scientific field.

To considerate the aspects mentioned above and its scientific relationship with the topic of the Thesis to evaluate, the Academic Committee will request and dispose of: